Please Help Stop the Source of Genocide Funding

Sri Lankan government possesses neither the capital nor the expertise to fully exploit its resources. Instead, they are highly reliant on foreign direct investment to fund its military and facilitate the conflict in Sri Lanka. As of 2006 Sri Lanka's exports were worth $7.076 billion. Its main trading partners are United States, United Kingdom, India, Germany, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan and China. Global trade of Sri Lankan goods and services directly and indirectly funds expenditures on its army, navy, and air force. Government spending on military accounts for about 5% of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) compared with about 3% in India and Pakistan.  According to recent estimates, the Defense ministry spending is expected to rise from $1.48 billion in 2008 to $1.66 billion in 2009. Disproportionate military spending has led to an unsustainable ballooning of Sri Lankan budget deficit to 7.2%.

These exports strengthen the Sri Lankan economy and allow the continued funding of unprecedented military action and ongoing human rights violations. The "No To Sri Lanka" campaign strives to pressure the Sri Lankan government to free the 300,000 Tamil civilians trapped in barbed wire concentration camps. By endorsing this campaign, consumers, retailers, and governments can help to bring freedom and justice to the Tamil people.
We are calling for an international boycott of Sri Lanka as a form of consumer activism involving the act of voluntarily abstaining from consuming, and or dealing with the Sri Lankan government as an expression of protest, and to diminish arms procurement by the government.  Please sign this petition to help stop the source of genocide funding, please visit http://www.notosrilanka.ocm/ to read more about our global campaign.